WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012
All Sorts of Opportunities
Last full day in Amish country so I’m in panic mode to fit everything in.I first toured The Amish Farm and Home which used to be a real Amish farm, now open for the public to see how the Amish live and learn more about them.It was very interesting, except the farm was geared towarda generation past . Though the guide didexplain some differences of the Amish of the past generation andthe Amish now.There are not many changes but some.
http://www.amishfarmandhouse.com/
Afterwards I took an Amish buggy ride with “Ed’s Buggy Rides” which was really fun. I was the last one in line and they asked me if I’d like to me sit up front but I accidentally sat in the driver’s seat. The old men running the buggy ride got a kick out of that and I became the person to tease for the duration. The ride went through back country roads and onto an Amish farm and through the fields. We stopped at the farm, saw the animals, the barn that housed the different buggies, saw where the cows were milked, plus they had a little shop set up for selling Amish crafts and lots of beautiful quilts. Three of the little kids in the family came outside to look at us , we are referred to as “the English”. The kids were so cute, all dressed in there Amish garb and their little dirty bare feet. One of the little boys was very friendly and enjoyed the attention.
My last adventure for the day was a trip to a gourd farm. I saw the ad in a magazine so I was unaware it was actually a real Amish farm until I found myself driving deeper and deeper in farm country and arrived at his address.The owner raises acres and acres of gourds to sell and has a large shop set up in an out building.He makes bird houses out of some of the gourds and his daughter paintsthem. This was a wonderful experience. The owner was very friendly and personable.The farm was beautiful and charming with his own bird houses hanging, along with the Amish clothes on the clothes line, the chickens quietly resting in the shade, his daughter working in the yard and his dogs coming up to greet me. It is called Smuckers’s Gourd Farm in Kinzer’s PA and they sell beautiful gourd bird houses and other gourd decorations, or if you choose, you can also buy the gourds undecorated and finish them yourself. They do beautiful work and they will ship by UPS. I highly recommend.
The Amish Farm and Home
Smucker’s Gourd Farm, Kinzer’s PA
View From Ed’s Buggy Ride
Hats and Scooters in the Yard of the Farm
We Visitied on the Buggie Ride.
Bird House I Bought at Smucker’s Gourd Farm
Beautiful Photo Ops Everywhere I Look
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